Columnist Earl Best calls on the regional media to sign a hands-off, ‘non-corporation’ pact to bring WICB president Dave Cameron and company to heel: What know they of cricket, CLR James asked almost five and a half decades ago, who only cricket know? What know they of West Indies cricket, …
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UWI senior economics lecturer and PNM senator Lester Henry explains why the West Indies’ 2016 Twenty20 World Cup success was a triumph of hard work and professionalism over happy-go-lucky cricket; and not the other way around: There is a saying, made popular by Malcolm Gladwell’s “Outliers”, that if you spend …
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Among the many points to be distilled from the West Indies’ Twenty20 victories is that the solution to any Caribbean problem often lies beyond the boundary of the problem as usually defined. This is as true of our cricket as it is of our economy, politics or, indeed, any other …
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Two years ago, end of the third school term, I found myself arbitrarily relating my father’s strongest memory of World War II to my own children: At his secondary school, anytime they heard the drone of a heavy aircraft, all pens, including the teacher’s, stopped in the air above exercise book …
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The following is a transcript of West Indies captain Darren Sammy’s post-game comments, transcribed by ESPNCricInfo, after he led his team to a four wicket win over England in the 2016 World Twenty20 Cup in India: I want to thank the Almighty, because without him nothing is possible. We have …
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Today we’re all West Indians. United under the maroon flag, we possess a power so magical that with a single win, we transformed Dwayne Bravo’s inanity into a global anthem of victory. Champion! Champion! Under the unity flag of West Indian triumph, however, lies the troubling West Indian reality of a …
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